Social Action & Science

Being With DyingThis Professional Training Program for Clinicians in Compassionate Care of the Seriously Ill and Dying is fostering a revolution in care of the dying and seriously ill. Clinicians learn essential tools for taking care of dying people with skill and compassion.

ChaplaincyA visionary and comprehensive two-year program for a new kind of chaplaincy to serve individuals, communities, the environment, and the world.

The Fall Practice Period includes "Zazenkai" on November 20th, the "Thanksgiving Retreat: Form and Emptiness, Exploring the Heart Sutra" November 22-27, and "Rohatsu Sesshin: The Heart Sutra's Wisdom Beyond Wisdom, Compassion Beyond Compassion" December 1-8. When you register, you will receive email confirmations that you are in all three of these retreats that make up the entire practice period.

We encourage you to attend the full practice period. You may register for these retreats individually if you are unable to attend the entire time.

At this time, housing is full December 1-8. Please call Roberta at 505-986-8518 x12 before you register online.

More about the instructors:

Sensei Beate Genko Stolte is a Zen teacher who has practiced Zen for more than 20 years and was priest-ordained in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi ("Zen Mind, Beginners Mind").

She has degrees in business administration and fiscal law. She has lived, practiced, and taught in Zen Buddhist communities in the United States, Switzerland and Germany and visited Japan for Zen Buddhist studies.

As a co-founder of a German Buddhist Study Center, she served as president of the board for ten years as well as director. Sensei Beate Genko Stolte currently teaches in the USA and Europe.

Joan Halifax Roshi is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author. She is Founder, Abbot, and Head Teacher of Upaya Zen Center, a Buddhist monastery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D in medical anthropology in 1973. She has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions, including Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Medical School, Georgetown Medical School, University of Virginia Medical School, Duke University Medical School, University of Connecticut Medical School, among many others. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology, and was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University. From 1972-1975, she worked with psychiatrist Stanislav Grof at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center on pioneering work with dying cancer patients, using LSD as an adjunct to psychotherapy. After the LSD project, she has continued to work with dying people and their families and to teach health care professionals as well as lay individuals on compassionate care of the dying. She is Director of the Project on Being with Dying and Founder and Director of the Upaya Prison Project that develops programs on meditation for prisoners. For the past twenty-five years, she has been active in environmental work. She studied for a decade with Zen Teacher Seung Sahn and was a teacher in the Kwan Um Zen School. She received the Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and was given Inka by Roshi Bernie Glassman. A Founding Teacher of the Zen Peacemaker Order, her work and practice for more than three decades has focused on applied Buddhism. Her books include: The Human Encounter with Death (with Stanislav Grof); Shamanic Voices; Shaman: The Wounded Healer; The Fruitful Darkness; Simplicity in the Complex: A Buddhist Life in America; Being with Dying; and Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (with Kazuaki Tanashashi).

Kazuaki Tanahashi, born and trained in Japan and active in the United States since 1977, has had solo exhibitions of his calligraphic paintings internationally. He has taught East Asian calligraphy at eight international conferences of calligraphy and lettering arts. Also a peace and environmental worker for decades, he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Enkyo Roshi is a Zen Priest and certified Zen Teacher in the Soto tradition. She studied with John Daido Loori Roshi of Zen Mountain Monastery and Taizan Maezumi Roshi of the Zen Center of Los Angeles/Zen Mountain Center . In 1997 she received Shiho (dharma transmission) from Roshi Bernie Tetsugen Glassman and in June, 2004, she received inka from him in an empowerment ceremony held at the House of One People in Montague, Ma.

Roshi currently serves as Co-Spiritual Director of the Zen Peacemaker Family, a spiritual, study and social action association.

Enkyo Roshi's focus is on true self-expression, peacemaking and HIV/AIDS activism. She holds a Ph. D. in Media Ecology and taught Multi-media at New York University for over 20 years.

"Coming back to the live moment is the greatest healing, the greatest compassion" -Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara